Category: Mediterranean

Today, we have been at sea, heading Northwards towards the Bay of Biscay and Ireland. I was on afternoon shift again, which meant we were able to get up at a reasonable time and enjoy a leisurely breakfast. After breakfast, at 10am, we went into the Show Lounge to enjoy an on-stage talk with The Captain, the Chief Engineer, The...

Today, we arrived at our penultimate port stop, Gibraltar. It was an early start; both Tracey and myself were down for escorting duty, and had to be on the quayside for 7:45am. That meant bounding out of bed at 6:45am to get an early breakfast in – not a time we’re used to at all. The tour we were escorting...

Today, the sea has been calm all day. I was on morning shift for my class, which left the rest of the day for doing other stuff. After lunch, we managed to bag ourselves a seat in the garden area at the very back of the ship (which is extremely popular, and it can be very difficult to find a...

Today, we were at sea, as we head toward our penultimate port-of-call, Gibraltar. The sea has been a little on the choppy side today; not excessively so, and we’ve definitely experienced much rougher, but it’s been enough to upset a few folks, and numbers were a bit down for my class (a gentle boat scene) as a result. The day...

Today, we arrived in Civitavecchia (pronounced Chiv-it-a-vech-ia), and our plans today involved getting to and from Italy’s capital city, Rome. The port of Civitavecchia is huge, and transit from ship to port gate is by shuttle bus; as far as we can tell, that goes for all ships – they don’t want pedestrians wandering around by themselves, getting into trouble....